I'll keep this post short and sweet, like the book which took me three hours to read. This is the first Stainless Steel Rat book, and I think the best that I have read so far. Love it.

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Though this the fourth book chronologically, it's really the first one to read as it introduces the characters the best.

I thought this was a very funny book. As the series goes on, the particular humor gets a bit old as it's pretty much just more of the same with each volume. ( )

This book was OK, decent start but wandered off clumsily. Mostly it suffered from shallow characterization. I felt I was told what to think and feel about the characters and plot but that the events in the story didn't back it up. ( )

The Stainless Steel Rat is a character that is most definitely in the Arsene Lupin mold, although perhaps not quite so flash. A rogue and a super-thief if you like.

He runs into a problem when he meets an organisation of ex-super thieves and rogues just like him, and they beat him at his own game.

Co-opted, he has no choice but to help them out.

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The first of the series. Harry Harrison at his best. Good story, interesting characters. ( )